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From a bystander point of view, is the fee for a Cat 1 cert $2,200? and the cost of registering in Poland $395 euro?
So it is cheaper outright to register offshore, and then you don't need to spend all the other boat dollars on items Cat 1 require but you don't want or need?
Simplistic approach I know, but certainly makes the offshore registration the path of least resistance.
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They've got her off. Very lucky.
Now to see if the rudder is still attached or not.
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The steering was 'upgraded' last month. So this grounding has nothing to do with the boats age.
This is why Kiwirail can't have nice things.
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1 hour ago, aardvarkash10 said:
I suspect MNZ have other priorities as of about 10pm yesterday.
They don't actually do anything though do they?
Don't they just sling sh*t at people that were doing something, after the fact?
Isn't that why they are staffed with lawyers and not ex-sea captains?
Can't wait for the Enchanter verdict.
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There is a good chance the Black Foils will get dropped for next season.
4 teams haven't yet found purchasers of the team from SailGP, including the Black Foils.
SailGP want $34mil for the Spanish team, so not small change.
With all of the Black Foils team (or at least the brains trust) heading off for an AC cycle, will they even want to continue running a sailGP programme at the same time?
Now with the inclusion of a Brazil team, they're going to need to drop one.
Who will it be?
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42 minutes ago, khayyam said:
Wow, check out the headline, only due to Ngati Manuhiri and no-one else. Strewth, they'll be funding everything themselves then?
It is nice to have a good news story BUT, they have eliminated one clump.
The other thing I am unsure of, is if the water visibility has been suitable for a proper search. We are in winter (obviously) and have had nothing but N'East or easterlies, big rain events and absolutely zero settled weather with regard to letting water viz clear. I may be wrong, I haven't been spearfishing myself for some time, so the viz may be better than I realise but I doubt it.
The point being, you can't say it's not there just cause you can't see it (when looking in porridge). Being that if you can't see your hand at the end of your arm, how can you see there is no caulerpa?
I'd say lost, not eradicated.
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1 hour ago, Black Panther said:
Translation: it won't help win olympic medals.
Never a truer word spoken.
How long has D. Abbercrombie been in that role now? at least 15 years?
The only sporting body to ever be told by the arbitration panel they completely fucked up and were forced to nominate their own athletes. Had a selector who's son was via-ing for selection. Can't spell conflict of interest, or due process. A remarkable PR disaster running in the MSM.
I am very interested why this would be announce 10 days before in comes into force. I suspect the cruising community that fund YNZ and all the non-dinghy racing clubs will have an outpouring of criticism for YNZ, and then absolutely nothing will change.
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1 hour ago, waikiore said:
Oh dear K -that is not Wasabi's sistership again is it?
Not sure.
This boat was called Runaway, think it was renamed after the keel feel off the first time.
All the info is on SA, including a thread with far more knowledge than me.
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2 hours ago, waikiore said:
For a bit of thread drift , another keel fell off over in Queensland sadly a loss of life -interesting boat appears to have very flared topsides.
Second time it's fallen off that particular boat too.
Would make jokes about slow learning and what not, but unfortunately a guy died this time.
The wings are water ballasted, was designed by Sayer for the Mel-Osaka back in the day.
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Whales
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hope he's got a spare pare of glasses.
Can see why vendee skippers and other crazy high speed soloists are starting to wear helmets more regularly now.
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There are some interesting parallels with YNZ handing cat 1 inspections back to MNZ, with the Motor Caravan Association handing back in the inspection and issuing of Self Containment Certificates back to MBIE. Basically a small special interest group with quasi-professional elements but largely volunteer based getting sick of administering central govt dictates and handing the responsibility back - or getting it snatched off them - by the bureaucrats to increase the size of their portfolio and budgets.
Not having a land yacht myself I'm not across the full details, but by all accounts it is an utter ball-ache. Others on here may have better knowledge.
Last I heard, they are requiring those self contained porta potties, the ones you put the blue portaloo liquid in, MBIE are requiring that they are permanently vented outside the vehicle. If its not permanently vented, you can't get your self contained certificate, even though you are fully self contained.
Not as much as an issue as NZTA making it impossible for many land yachts with after market conversion to get a COF, basically cause every inspector in the country is too scared to sign anything off, and no-one can get any direction from NZTA. Noting that NZTA have known about dodgy handbrakes on certain types of vehicles for over 15 years, and have only recently issued a directive, which is a sticker on the dash that says you must park on flat ground, or install wheel chocks every time you stop.
Serious.
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1 hour ago, aardvarkash10 said:
MNZ will no doubt contract it out. Cost will likely go up, and if WOF / COF system is any guide, the assessments will be variable.
You never know, MNZ might take some guidance from the Ministry of Regulations and realise that the benefit of central govt mandated inspections overriding skipper responsibility and the fact that loopholes are so prevalent and easily obtained, that the whole compulsory cat 1 inspection is a waste of time. They might drop the whole thing and make it a voluntary requirement, governed primarily by insurance requirements.
But then, maybe not.
It may require whole bureaucracies to break out in viral attacks of logic.
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1 hour ago, Island Time said:
The TAO BMS units that I use have simple Mode controls, Keep full, Normal (20% to 80%) Storage (40%-60%). Just select what you want on the menu, and the BMS controls all charge and discharge sources as needed. Keeping LiFePo4 full will reduce it's ultimate cycle life... but it's not a safety issue or anything..
This is clearly an entirely different mindset to using the lead acid variants and wanting to keep them as topped up as possible at all times.
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Question,
I thought one of the benefits of LiFePo was that you could use the full battery capacity, as in 100%. That is a clear advantage over the lead acid variants where you generally can't go below 50% DoD as it greatly reduces cycle life - as in you can if you need to, but you don't design your system to so that you get good cycle life.
If you keep your LiFePo between 80% and 30%, you are only using 50% of the capacity.
Noting I would probably do the same if I had a LiFePo, but what is the main reason for doing that?
Is it just being conservative? (which is a good thing), better cycle life?, simpler management, in that you aren't banging into the BMS hard stops all the time / relying on the BMS?
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1 hour ago, eruptn said:
Delivered in March 2024, and pranged on it's first operational patrol.
As the article said, Fiji are working to manage an embarrassing situation.
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56 minutes ago, SloopJohnB said:
It looks like he is using a lead line.
An accurate way of establishing the depth and profile of the reef you are on, to assist in formulating a plan to get off. Maybe if half the ship is afloat you could shift all the weight forward to lift the stern off and float free. Simple to check with a lead line.
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2 hours ago, Psyche said:
Jetskis were registered mainly due to a number of dangerous and deadly incidents involving young men being idiots, pressure groups formed which got the politicians involved.
And the Mayor of Auckland, John Banks. Busted hooning on a jetski within 200m of shore, might have been Kohi I think.
I would support registration of boats, specifically with a clearly displayed identifying number. That people can be easily traced and followed up for poor behaviour I think would have a profound effect on a lot of poor behaviour. I would say to register fizz boats, but I have no issue with registering all boats, not going to pretend yachties and launch owners don't have a proportion of poorly behaving individuals.
I don't see any benefit in licensing. In Aust it appears to be a revenue generating means, possibly with the justification to fund on water enforcement. I believe people should have the right to kill themselves if they choose not to wear a LJ or try crossing bars when it's not on etc, most of the things that licensing would educate you on.
The only issue with boat registration would be the cost of administering the system compared to the benefits. I'm not convinced the benefits would outweigh the cost. The question being, what problem are we trying to solve? There is a big difference between inconsiderate boats passing too close at speed / putting up wake, and outright dangerous boats that need to be apprehended.
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On 11/06/2024 at 7:49 AM, Black Panther said:
You are sailing in zero visibility. You need to pass a big outcrop of coral to port then turn 90 deg port. What navigation tools do you have and how close will you get and still be comfortable? Closer cuts time off your trip, farther off means less chance of hitting the coral.
You didn't say if this was a charter boat or not?
This is known to greatly influence the risk profile and level of caution taken
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11 hours ago, harrytom said:
If for some reason they find him not guilty but not acquitted like the Bain case(some legal term for it) what would they compensation be??
As AA mentions, I think the term is 'set aside' the original conviction. That doesn't mean he is guilty or not guilty, just that they can't rely on the original verdict. You just have to ignore the original verdict.
That turns into a strange kind of legal no-mans-land, where you are neither guilty or not guilty.
What happens after that is anyone's guess. It is clearly not possible to have another trial, since the key witness killed himself and it all happened 25 years ago. I would imagine that Watson would want another trial so he can be found not guilty, but I can't see another trial happening.
Another option is the Solicitor General or Minister for Justice, I get mixed up which (an elected MP, if I have my facts right) can issue a pardon. That person at the time declined to issue a pardon for Bain. I think it was Judith Collins. I'd be very surprised if anyone would issue a pardon for Watson, unless some new, unequivocal evidence came to light.
Then, none of that has any influence on compensation. My understanding is for compensation to be given, it must be demonstrated that a miscarriage of justice has occurred. Again, just because a verdict was set aside doesn't necessarily mean a miscarriage occurred, although it would strengthen the argument greatly.
Confused yet?
I'd say the best outcome for Watson is that he is let out of prison and can just live a peaceful quite life somewhere. Noting he is well past the minimum sentence length and wont be released on parole because he wont admit to the murder. A serious catch 22 if he didn't actually do it. Regardless of any legal outcomes, his name is intrinsically linked to a shocking double murder, he isn't ever going to be able to join the Glendowie Gulf Club or RNZYS, or hang out with wealthy or influential people anytime soon. Given he'd have zero money now, maybe he's better off inside where he gets free rent and three cooked meals a day paid for by us? Gets to potter around in the prison garden growing veges and watch TV every night.
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Who is Will Robinson?
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5 minutes ago, Psyche said:
Welcome to reality, the business of making money comes first, (until the end of June)
Thanks for the link Psyche:
Residents on Aotea/ Great Barrier are furious after commercial cray fishers were spotted in waters covered by a fishing ban under Caulerpa rules.
“That commercial operators are dropping cray pots in an area where this activity is otherwise banned is deeply offensive to locals, who’ve been carefully adhering to the ban for nearly three years now,” said co-chair Aotea Caulerpa Response Team Chris Ollivier
“It is also hugely worrying in terms of where those cray pots returned to after being at the Barrier, quite possibly with Caulerpa attached to them, and that is Leigh, the site of New Zealand’s poster child for marine reserves.”
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RNZ understands the suspected caulerpa was found near boat moorings - but Omaha Cove also has a wharf used by commercial fishing boats, including those permitted to work in the controlled areas around Aotea Great Barrier where the pest is rife.
Commercial cray fishers have been allowed to continue operating, setting cray posts INSIDE the CAN at Gt Barrier. Hence why Auckland Council thought Leigh Harbour might be a 'high risk' location for an outbreak.
I understand the Barrier locals are highly traumatised that while they have been banned from collecting seafood, commercial fishers from the mainland continue to operate right in their faces.
But for some reason, while commercial interests set cages on the caulerpa infested seafloor, recreational boaties are banned from anchoring and blamed in the media for caulerpa's spread...
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I think it is fair to say the conviction is unsafe because of the high level of dodgy-ness used at the trial. In any other narrative, finding the girls hair on the third go but not the first or second, while there were slits cut in the evidence bag, in any other narrative that would be called planted evidence. Not a coincidence.
But there is an underlying issue of did he do it or not? I don't have a clear view, despite reading much on the case.
Sometimes I think he is guilty, and deserves what he gets, sometimes I imagine, what if he was innocent all along and has been wrongly convicted?
I know there are people that are convinced he did it. Having spoken to one person that sailed with him, that belief is around character traits rather than hard evidence. But the belief is strongly held.
Complicated. It would certainly rock the public's trust in the justice system if the verdict were overturned now, what, 30 years after the fact? Still it has happened to other convictions from the same era.
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I see after today's sh*t show / drifterthon they have moved tomorrows start tome earlier by 3 hours, to 5am NZ time. Based on the forecast for thunder storms, they want to get some stable wind / racing in earlier in the day.
Even my missus couldn't understand why the blew race 3 up on the first leg. There is the race time limit of 16 minutes. Yes there was major wind shift on the course but that handn't hit the boats yet. Is there another time limit to finish the first leg in? If there was, as Burling notes, it wasn't applied in AbuDhabi.
My miss 11 says it is the most boring yacht race she has even seen. Noting she wasn't born when the AC was in 12m's match racing day in day out at turtle speed.
Shame they don't have the 29m wings still for these light days. In saying that, if there are thunder storms about, would you put a monster wing on? If the storm cell comes through it could get a little too exciting.